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Global Food Webinar & Training Programme 2023 – 2024

ALS provide Webinar Sessions and Courses focused on the topical issues affecting everyone working in today’s fast-moving food & beverage industry.

Below are some of the Webinar courses that are being held before the end of the year:

  • Basic Food Microbiology Awareness
  • PFAs in Food – Lessons learned from Environmental Analysis
  • Repeat and Duplicate Testing – Why is it that we don’t always get the same results?
  • Investigation Testing
  • Introduction to Listeria
  • Is it Vegan?
  • Screening and Selecting Sensory Panelists
  • How to assess the significance of pathogens in Ready to Cook products
  • May Contain: The VITAL Program for precautionary Allergen Labelling
  • Food Factory Environmental Monitoring
  • Cooking Validation

In January 2024, the following courses are being offered:

  • Basic Food Microbiology Awareness
  • How to chose the most appropriate specification for your product
  • Uncertainty of measurement fundamentals and interpretations of the results
  • PFAs in Food – Lessons learned from Environmental Analysis

For our latest brochure that includes date for upcoming courses please refer to: Global Food Webinar & Training Program 2023/24

 

For more information on the above courses, click here

Webinar & Training Course Details

Flyers are now included in the below links for our most popular courses. 

 

Please refer to our training program posts for information on when these courses are next being run.

ALS Clonmel – Accredited MALDI-TOF

ALS is the only contract lab in Ireland that has conducted internal validations to comply with ISO 17025 requirements and hold INAB accreditation for the following confrimations using MALDI-TOF:

  • Salmonella spp
  • Listeria
  • Legionella
  • Campylobacter
  • Pseudomonas
  • Enterobacteriaceae
  • Coliforms
  • Cronobacter spp
  • Clostridia
  • Staphylococci
  • Salmonella spp
  • Listeria

MALDI-TOF is recognised by the Retailer Supplementary Audit (RSA) Scheme as an identification tool for selected pathogens. ALS holds RSA compliance for MALDI-TOF to be used in conjunction with our RSA compliant methods for testing own label finished products supplied to Tesco and Marks & Spencer for:

  • Salmonella spp
  • Listeria
  • Campylobacter

ALS will continue to use the current ‘traditional’ methods for identifying any other pathogens on own-label finished products supplied to Tesco and Marks and Spencer samples.

 

In addition to the above, ALS can also provide unaccredited identifications for 911 species that are in the MALDI-TOF database.

 

For further details please see our MALDI-TOF brochure or contact the Client Services Team:
t: +353 (0)52 617 8100
e: info.ie@alsglobal.com